Pulse nightclub owner Barbara Poma announced Thursday that the site of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history will become a permanent memorial and ultimately a museum.

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Poma said in an Orlando news conference that she has established a task force to create plans for a permanent memorial, scholarships and a museum honoring the 49 people killed at the nightclub last June.

Poma said her foundation, the One Pusle Foundation, will fund the project.

The fund will support the construction and maintenance of the memorial, community grants to care for the survivors and victims’ families, and scholarships for each of the 49 victims.

The task force is an appointed volunteer coalition of family members of victims, survivors, and local community leaders.

They will give recommendations and guidance to the Board of Trustees to create, build, and financially maintain the memorial at the Pulse site.

Still in formation, the Task Force will break into different subcommittees who will each play a role in the gathering of data that will reflect the wishes of the victims’ families, the survivors, and the community at large.

Poma said she has visited memorials around the country, including in Oklahoma City and New York City, looking for guidance and input.

Poma’s announcement that she intends to take on the project herself comes months after she turned down a $2.25 million offer for the club from the city of Orlando.